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Meet the Team The Cisco Financial Planning Analysis FP A team has an exciting opportunity for Financial Analyst to support Cisco s Global FP A Center of Excellence CoE at Bangalore Your Impact In this role the analyst would work as part of finance team supporting periodic performance reporting decision analysis business insights and forecasting planning for regional Sales and Services organization Business Entities General reporting and business metric tracking including generating reports analyses and models as requested by the business to support the overall process regionally or globally Prepare and disseminate timely and accurate financial information to allow the business to plan forecast and make decisions using controlled consistent data Takes full ownership of and accountability for on-going reports providing validation and supporting documentation to business partners as required Perform scenario analysis planning to be used for decision making and approvals Organizational Expense HC reporting Bookings Revenue and Margin Analysis support opex management with PR approvals and accruals for regions BE Identifies potential opportunities for process improvement to CoE leadership Acting as the primary contact to designated business finance partner s providing timely advice appropriate reporting analysis thereon Participating as an extended member of the business finance partner team ensuring good of the underlying business in order to provide the appropriate analytical insights Assisting in providing value-added management decision support driving key business goals identify major trends and corresponding business issues Minimum Qualifications BS degree in accounting finance with CA MBA with 4 years of proven experience High degree of partnering skills Personal integrity drive for results forward thinker proactive and cross functional thinker General financial understanding a plus periodic performance reporting yearly and quarterly opex budgeting and planning and month-end accounting Must have excellent analytical and systems skills including sound finance and accounting knowledge advanced excel skills and a working knowledge of various systems tools Business Objects Essbase etc Strong and effective communications across multiple levels of the Company and across multiple functional organizations Must have excellent partnering and influencing skills Preferred Qualifications Ability to work with Macros Database knowledge so as to deal with large financial data Ability to create automation models in excel Ability to connect to external databases in excel and high end data analytics skills that can be applied for FP A analytical models Why Cisco At Cisco we re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond We ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security visibility and insights across the entire digital footprint Simply put - we power the future Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology we experiment and create meaningful solutions Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts and you ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless We work as a team collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale Because our solutions are everywhere our impact is everywhere We are Cisco and our power starts with you Message to applicants applying to work in the U S and or Canada When available the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire full-time salaries in U S and or Canada locations not including equity or benefits For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target Individual pay is determined by the candidate s hiring location and additional factors including but not limited to skillset experience and relevant education certifications or training Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U S or Canada hiring location The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process U S employees have to quality medical dental and vision insurance a 401 k plan with a Cisco matching contribution short and long-term disability coverage basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year which includes one floating holiday for non-exempt employees plus a day off for their birthday Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year at a rate of 4 92 hours per pay period Exempt new hires participate in Cisco s flexible Vacation Time Off policy which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use but is subject to availability and some business limitations All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty 80 hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary which is split between quota and non-quota components For quota-based incentive pay Cisco typically pays as follows 75 of incentive target for each 1 of revenue attainment up to 50 of quota 1 5 of incentive target for each 1 of attainment between 50 and 75 1 of incentive target for each 1 of attainment between 75 and 100 and once performance exceeds 100 attainment incentive rates are at or above 1 for each 1 of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives Cisco may pay up to 125 of target Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid